Based on the book by Sylvia Nasara. This is a film that tells us the story about John Nash, a new graduate of Princeton University and a recipients of the prestigious Carnegie price for mathematics.During this time of his stay, he unknowingly developed an illness called schizophrenia wherein he halluvinates about certain events and people. My responses to A Beautiful Mind differed from each point in the movie. At first my impression was how intelligent John Nash was, as most people who suffer from mental illness are, as studies have shown. The feeling of sorrow came over me , as I watched him struggle with the feelings of loneliness and depression, he struggled to find focus for his project and a place in the student hierarchy. I wondered if it was because of his lack of family support that he became socially awkward, and his lack of correct emotional responses in social situations. His interactions with women amused me and troubled me. His bluntness in asking for sexual favors and his reaction to their responses seized to amaze me. I was surprised when he developed a relationship with a woman because of his lack of social skills, and bluntness towards them. I was happy for him, but it still made me wonder about his lack of family support, and love in the home how he would deal with a long term relationship, and problems that arise with the needs of the other individual and how he would handle the issues. It made me angry and wonder about his family. They showed absent and non-involvement in his life and in his wedding. He never got the care, support and the love that every child should feel during the childhood, and the teenage years that is needed for healthy development of social skills that are needed for survival in this day and age. Intellect alone can be damaging in a child's social skills, and how he relates and interacts with his peers. I believe more than anything else, this movie focuses on perceptions of...

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...﻿Liz Burgess
English 152-06
The movie Life if Beautiful by Roberto Benigni addresses how love between people can remain strong even through the most horrible of events. The movie takes a very interesting approach on how a father can bring comedy and light to the events of the Holocaust to maintain his son’s happiness. I personally thought this movie was excellent because it challenged the way that most people would want to think about the Holocaust. It is hard to bring an element of comedy to these events but Life is Beautiful really does make it happen wonderfully in a dramatic and tragic story of a family sent to a concentration camp.
A review from a critic states that Life is Beautiful is a “painfully horrible movie with an inappropriate story”. This seems to be a common complaint from the few negative reviews that can be found about this film. However I think this is a very ignorant statement about the movie because it never claims to be a movie about the Holocaust. The whole point of the film is to demonstrate that life is beautiful and there can be optimism found in even the most horrific of times. I don’t find that there is any element of offensiveness brought to the events of the Holocaust by the actions of Guido. The entire movie, the father, Guido, is an optimistic, energetic man who makes things positive in order to keep his son’s...

...Life is BeautifulLife is Beautiful, a film by Robert Benigni, takes place in Arezzo, Italy. A comical man named Guido Orefice arrives in Arezzo to open a bookstore, taking a temporary job as a waiter. Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances with Dora, who steals at her engagement with her fiancé. In years later, Guido and Dora gets married and have a son named Joshua. Guido finally lives thelife of his dreams, but that all turns around on Joshua’s birthday.
All turns around on Joshua’s birthday, when Guido and his son are taken to a concentration camp. Dora demands to her family and his permitted to do so. Dora boards on the same train as Guido and Joshua. From there, Guido and Joshua are separated from Dora because men and women are divided because of their gender. In an attempt to keep up Joshua's spirits, Guido convinces Joshua that the camp is just a game, in which the first person to get 1000 points wins a tank.
Guido maintains his lie until the end of the story. When the American liberation arrived, the Germans were in chaos. Guido and Joshua attempted to escape the imprisonment. Guido tells Joshua to hide and not come out until everyone leaves, while he goes look for his mother. Where he was then taken away and is shot by a Nazi guard, but not before making his son laugh one last time by imitating the Nazi guard. Joshua manages to survive, and thinks he has...

...one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you’re hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!”
It is extremely difficult to find a movie which is hilarious, emotional and appealing all at once. This movie does it all. ‘Life is Beautiful’ is a blockbuster movie which received great acclaim in 1997 winning four out of eight Academy Award nominations earning close to $171 million internationally. The story revolves around the lives of a couple and their son surviving the concentration camp which was in existence during the Nazi rule. Casting Roberto Benigni, the director, as Guido Orefice, Nicoletta Braschi as Dora and Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua (son), the roles were very well portrayed with exceptional degree of emotion and humour. The script which was also co-authored by Benigni along with Vincenzo Cerami, contains a well drafted plot with many twists and turns intertwined within. It can be credited to the extent that it depicted the true state of affairs during the 1940s and how it affected this tightly bound family which was just like any other. The qualities of the individual characters are well depicted through the scene where Guido tries so hard to convince Joshua, his son, that the life at the concentration camp was actually a strenuous game in which the two sides had to fight tooth and nail in order to win an elusive prize- a real tank! Despite misery, pain, hunger, sickness and death,...

...them with their hard life after the divorce. The divorce is the most serious social problem that affect almost the entire life of the children and the couple, it also makes troubles like: sadness, despair, children, and unforgettable moments.
The issue is continuing and never stop easily which generates a huge sadness and despair for both sides the couple and the relatives. People usually divorce because they think that they can't be together to continue their life for some behavior reasons. Therefore, couples feel painful and harder to live than before, and the child doesn’t have any idea about the sudden issue that enters the fear in their hearts.
Moreover, some parents hesitate to split up when they have children, and won't split up instantly which gives them leisure to choose the right choice. Parents who don’t have children don’t hesitate and decide to split up immediately, and choose the wrong choice to eliminate their life. As a result, they regret for the useless chosen way to split up, and the remorse will mostly last forever in hearts.
In conclusion, the divorce has a lot of troubles according the misery, which damage the children and the beautifullife. People have to mind it as a serious problem that they should handle it, whether they are going to divorce or not. To lead them to a progressive beautifullife that make everyone happy...

... In both Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Roberto Benigni's “ Life is Beautiful” the element of
chance played a major role in the outcome of each character. It impacts the paths of each
family in negative and positive way’s. Throughout each family’s time in the concentration
camps they are so heavily influenced by greed, anger and corruption that without the role of
chance, hope and love surviving would have been impossible. With displays of unknowingly
running from the enemy to randomly being selected by the enemy, chance changes their
lives forever.
In the beginning of Life Is Beautiful Guido’s son Giosue refuses to take a bath for his
mother. This later turns out to be a positive impact of chance on this little boy. In the
concentration camp Giosue is asked to strip and take a shower which would have actually
been a gas shower intending to kill him. Instead he runs off and hides and does not get into
that shower. Similarly in the book Night, Eliezer's father is selected to be killed because
of his emaciated and malnourished body in the Buna labour camp. Luckily there was a
second selection among the condemned which allowed him to go back to the barracks.
Both of these examples portray a positive outcome of chance that lead to their success in
the camps.
When The Germans received new’s of the Russians advancing into the Buna camp they
started...

...﻿Robert Benigni 1997 film life is beautiful is set during World War Two Nazi occupation in Italy. The film portrays the life of an Italian Jew and the responsibilities he faces to maintain his relationship with his wife and son. Benigni highlights through filmic elements such as soundtrack, dialogue and setting that life is all about relationships, the title life is beautiful represents howlife can be beautiful even in oppressive circumstances if you have quality relationships. The film is split into two distinct parts the first half depicts a romantic film where Guido and Dora meet and fall in a deep meaningful love. The second half depicts the struggles as an Italian Jew whilst being held captive in a concentration camp.
Responsibilities are heightened or made clear due to circumstances. Benigni constructs characters with embedded responsibility in particular responsibilities associated with father hood or parenting. The responsibilities of the father to protect his son are heightened due to the circumstances in which they encounter in the film. Guido is the sole protector of Giosuè throughout the entire duration of the life within the concentration camp, which gives him the sole responsibilities for the protection of Giosuè. In different circumstances his responsibilities would still be to protect his son but not as such as it is in the...

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Life is Beautiful and Non Verbal Communication
Nonverbal communication is anything other than words that communicates a message. In other words, nonverbal communication is word-less communication received through the medium of gestures, signs, body movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, color, time, space, style of writing, and choice of words.
Kinesics literally means body movements. We can define kinesics as the study of the body's physical movements. In other words, it is the way the body communicates without words that is through various movements of its parts. Body language is an important factor in the process of communication, especially in face-to-face communication, as here the message is communicated by a number of factors like facial expressions, eye movements and gestures
Chronemics or use of time is also an important non-verbal method of communication. It is a mode of interpersonal communication. In these days of busy living, in business and social relations, time can be saved, wasted, given and taken. Punctuality or delay speaks pleasant or unpleasant feelings and attitudes. Tardiness is considered as an offense in some cultures
Paralanguage is defined as a type of nonverbal communication that includes articulation, pronunciation, rate, pitch, volume, pauses, and other vocal qualities. While verbal communication consists of what of the content, paralanguage involves the how of a speaker's voice or the...

...Life is beautiful, is a film just like roses; it has challenges which are like thorns and have to be faced and overcome by all in order to get to the beauty of the flower itself. Those who accept these challenges and succeed are the ones who know how to live life in its true sense. The film teaches the audience to enjoy life but at the same time, be prepared to bear the pricks of pain. The film “Life isBeautiful” is critical of the discrimination that the Jews faced during the Holocaust in the Second World War. The main aspects that the film covers are the importance of love and family, the role of imagination and the resilience of the human spirit. Therefore, in the movie “Life is Beautiful” the director shows Guido’s personal commitment to being both a protector of innocence for Joshua and a loving husband to Dora that is, at times, essential to filter other people’s prejudices in order to be true to who you are.
The director shows through Dora’s character on how we present ourselves, gets taken in two different ways by people, either in a positive or negative way. Some could be against the prejudice or for it that despites on who’s in charge. To Dora, Guido was a hero, but to the Nazis he was nothing more than a dog. To Guido, the Nazis were of no consequence; only the lives of his beloved concerned him. Guido’s interests were Dora and making her...